Holding Phrases

Phrases

• Animal Farm (George Orwell book)
• Bought the farm
• Buy the farm
• Can't hold a candle to
• Cold Comfort Farm (Stella Gibbons book)
• Cop hold of that
• Don't hold your breath
• Farm fresh
• Funny farm
• Get hold of the wrong end of the stick
• Hold a candle
• Hold a grudge
• Hold a gun to his head

• Hold a mirror up to nature
• Hold a mirror up to society
• Hold a torch
• Hold all the aces
• Hold all the cards
• Hold at bay
• Hold back on
• Hold court
• Hold down a job
• Hold everything
• Hold fast
• Hold forth
• Hold hands

• Hold hard
• Hold it
• Hold it right there
• Hold it up to the light, not a stain and shining light (Surf Washing Powder advertising slogan)
• Hold on
• Hold on a minute
• Hold on by your fingertips
• Hold on for dear life
• Hold on to your seat
• Hold out for
• Hold responsible
• Hold that thought
• Hold the field (- remain the most important)

• Hold the floor
• Hold the fort
• Hold the front page
• Hold the line
• Hold the phone
• Hold the purse strings
• Hold the ring
• Hold up
• Hold up your head
• Hold very tight please
• Hold water
• Hold with the hare and run with the hounds
• Hold your breath

• Hold your drink
• Hold your head up high
• Hold your horses
• Hold your nose
• Hold your own
• Hold your peace
• Hold your tongue
• Holding back the years
• Holding pattern
• Holding your cards close to your chest
• I Want To Hold Your Hand (Beatles song)
• If I said you had a beautiful body would you hold it against me?
• It takes two hands to hold a Whopper (Burger King advertising slogan)

• Left holding the baby
• Like a good neighbor (State Farm)
• Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there (State Farm Insurance advertising slogan)
• Link farm
• Maggie's Farm (Bob Dylan song)
• No holding him
• Please hold the line
• Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold (from a poem by Yeats)
• To have and to hold
• Whispering Death (Nickname of Michael Holding - West Indies cricketer)
• Wind farm
• You Really Got A Hold On Me (The Beatles and Smokey Robinson song)